Mount Pleasant Elementary School

Mount Pleasant Elementary School, a reasonably sized K-5 school in WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, one of the schools within West Orange Public Schools, teaches 349 students, covering grades K through 5.

Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by West Orange Public Schools, a district that serves 6,616 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mount Pleasant Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 32% Black, 18% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian.

On the resource side, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Mount Pleasant Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Pleasant Elementary School sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.3%; actual is 65.9%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Essex County) shows that median household income runs about $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Mount Pleasant Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Liberty Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mount Pleasant Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Pleasant Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.2%.

Mount Pleasant Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Mount Pleasant Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 349). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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